Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

■■■»' At Seneca Falls, N. Y., Mrs. Patrick Devlin, aged 70, was burned to death in a fire. There were six deaths and forty prostrations due to heat in New York City the other day. The Northville House, qne of the largest hotels at Northville, N. Y., a summer resort, was destroyed by fire. The wife and child of Rev. George Jefferes of Philadelphia died iu Shippensburg, Pa., from the effect of eadng toadstools. ’ I Thomas F. Bayard, ex-ambassador to England, is reported seriously ill at Karlstein, the summer home of his daughter, Mrs. S. D. Warren, in Dedham, Mass. A railroad train on the Boston and Maine Railroad struck a buckboard at Whiting’s crossing at Ware, Mass., and killed five members of a pleasure party. Three others were seriously hurt. A severe wind storm last night leveled ten tobacco barns in the northern part of Suffield, Conn., blew down many trees and crippled the electric light, service. The damage caused is estimated at $15,000, confined largely to ruined tobacco. John Carrigan, about <lO years of age, a cartman living at Buffalo, was murdered by his son Frank, aged 33 years, while he slept. Carrigan was arrested and taken to the house and shown the result of bis work. “1 did it; 1 admit it,” the prisoner said. ”1 did it because be broke my mother’s arm. He'abused her and I wouldn’t stand it.” With $150,000,000 behind him, young Thomas A. Mclntyre of Wall street, New York, is planning a Hour trust. It will be n combination of all the great flour mills throughout the United States. Mr. McIntyre will go abroad in a few days to swing the London stockholders into line. “It is our intention,” said Mr. Mclntyre, “to fight the great elevators controlled by the Chicago wheat p’t. We will build elevators of our own.” Ice cream prepared with lemon extract purchased from a traveling salesman has caused the death of three persons at Middletown, N. Y., and a score of others are sick nnd more fatalities are expected, The dead and dangerously sick constitute nearly all summer guests at Arthur Jones’ cottages at Greenfield, which is about five miles from Mountaindale, and the proprietor’s parents and his family. The ice cream was eaten at dinner, and about 9 o’clock that night Mrs. Seder was attacked with nausea. Soon after others were similarly sick. Dr. J. F. Curlette of Mountaindale was summoned, and he diagnosed the cases as ptomaine poisoning. He called Dr. Munson of and the two worked incessantly. Mrs. Seder died two days afterward, Mrs. Michaelis the .following night, and early the next morning Robert Jones died. Dr. Curlette believes six more deaths will occur. A _